Blocking access to messenger

[mistanapesis]

I am new to Win XP and going away on holiday. I want to stop the girl thats taking care of our house from using messenger. As the administrator can anyone tell me how do this? or even any other suggestions that might help. thanks in advance. If your unsure....Dont do it!

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Here ya go..

Remove Messenger from XP

Start/Run/RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove


Stop Windows Messenger from Auto-Starting

Simply delete the following Registry Key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MSMSGS


Uninstall Messenger

You have to edit sysoc.inf (located in /WINDOWS/inf). Under [Components] you should see the following line:
msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7. Take the word 'hide' out of the line, and it should look like this:
msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7. Exit and save.

Go to Add or Remove Programs, and click on Add/Remove Windows Components. There you should now be able to uncheck the MSN Messenger Service, and by clicking Next it will uninstall.


Remove MSN Messenger from Outlook Express

Start/Run/Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express. Value Name: Hide Messenger, Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value), Value Data: (2 = remove messenger). Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'Hide Messenger' and set the value to 2.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

Murray

 

[Bobg1]

Why does she even need access to the machine?
I would lock it down and not let her use it.
Just restricting messenger is doing nothing for the safety of the rest of your data.

 

[marcus1234]

I would give her standard user permissions, and i think XP SP1 has a new Permissions wizard (or something like that). So that the admin can choose which programs can be used by which users. Also means you can restrict IE, Outlook Express etc..

 

[mistanapesis]

Thanks for all your replies, I have decided to encrypt and password protect messenger. That should be enough to stop her for the time beign. If your unsure....Dont do it!